Opinion: Big Labor v. Immigrants

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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel have more on gay marriage in a second ... but for now editorial page editor Paul GBO is going to stay with us now ... to talk about immigration reform another hot button issue on Capitol Hill ... which seems to be stock ... on the issue of the guest worker program all ... I'm and give us an update where is the candidates and a decree on this guest worker cheaply made a lot of progress on ... across the board wanted to ditch these issues in a very close but the bigger sticking points merges this guest worker program and that's because the AFL CIO ... doesn't want to much of anything to be allowed for workers coming in the search workers who would come in for temporary visa ... I can make anything but not agriculture and height non hike tax so much address to the economy hospitality Hotels construction ... all kinds of things work which is really the app and the reasons that so many people do sneak in illegally ... you wanna have a guest worker program that allows them to come in legally depending on the economy go back and forth ... meet labor needs ... and the AFL sealed doesn't want that a once a limit to Visa's its first offer was only ten thousand visas for the entire ... American economy now they've ... been told the senators agreed on twenty thousand as a starting point ... maximum of two hundred thousand in to get between twenty ... and two thousand ... years ago through a complex formula ... that would be probably more complicated than many employers who've won when one is too weak governance program to war ... for this year he ... will be based on a complicated formula several different ... factors ... the commission would be one of them to ... politicize up a commission that would have appointees from labor and business and government ... and of likely be governed by politics not by what you need in this case which is the marketplace right you one and quarter to say ... it is I gotta hide or five people how can I get a ... kink in American's ok come on over the border you can be I need him for my construction project come I will work ... I and and that's with the AFL CIO has led to this is really a source of contention um I fear ... that Republicans are going to concede too much to the tothe to the tothe flavor that will has the White House when an all ... this discussion ... the White House so I issued its talking points its principles remember those were leaked ... but its bill while back they did include a guest worker program at all ... and that hurt the the the negotiator Schwab one ... this skill ... the entire deal ... well I think the cooler ... probably not in the Senate because what I'm told is there are some of the Republican senators hear a particular the ones negotiating ... they won a bill so badly ... because they view it as a rebranding exercise ... that they're willing to make enormous concessions to look for ... just for the sake of the deal ... so this that but but I think it would have to be selfish and housing that could